On Thursday 26 May 2011 19:14:04 Stan Goodman wrote: > On Thursday 26 May 2011 at 19:01:40 (GMT+2) "Uri Even-Chen" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > I recently had to pay taxes to the tax authorities in Israel (income > > tax). I think it's amazing that the tax authorities website supports > > only MSIE. I called their support and asked, they said they don't > > support Google Chrome or Firefox - only MSIE. I'm using Google > > Chrome and Firefox with all other websites, including my bank, but > > only with the tax authorities website I have to use MSIE. I have a > > bug/virus in MSIE and it took me more than an hour and I tried at > > least 6 times with 2 computers and 3 people on their support until I > > could pay my taxes. Shame on them! Maybe the Israeli Internet > > association should do something about it (revoke their .gov > > domain!)... > > Why amazing? Israel is probably the most MS addicted country on the > planet.
Just a note: that's wrong. South Korea is much worse: * http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/09/29/987-internet-explorer-in-south-korea/ * http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monoculture/ * http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/09/21/update-on-the-cost-of-monoculture-in- korea/ (short URL - http://xrl.us/bkpxqr ). > Nowhere else do people look at you as at a lunatic when they > learn that you are using something "exotic" (OS/2 or Linux). Once, years > ago, I was told in a Bezeq business office that I was speaking out of > ignorance, because _every_ computer has Windows. In contrast, last month > in Kiev, the driver who brought me into town from the airport glanced at > the screen of my laptop (which does not say "Linux"), and said to me, > "Oh, you're using Linux". > > There has already been a lot of talk here about efforts to get > governmental agencies and quasi-governmental ones to loosen up and stop > acting as though they are a subsideary of Microsoft. > > I've said before that the right address for improving this state of > afairs is the State Comptroller. That is still true. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap Satan condemned Hitler for a million years of writing XSLT. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
